Also branded as a "Cooksley", and easily confused with the Harrison Union Jubilee (also sold as a Cooksley) the 5-inch centre height by 30 inches between centres Dominion "Handy" lathe could be ordered with a bed of almost any length. Like the Jubilee, the "Handy" was robust but simple in execution being fabricated  from welded sections of steel plate. However, things were taken one stage further and, as a cost-cutting exercise, the makers fitted, in place of a conventional headstock, a pair of standard, off-the-shelf, ball-bearing plummer blocks covered by a rear-hinged guard.  A 3/4 h.p. 3-phase or 1-phase 1500 r.p.m. motor was offered as standard  complete with a direct-on-line, no-volt release, thermal-overload starter. The arrangement gave four spindle speeds that spanned a well set range of 500, 900, 1500 and 2500 r.p.m.
Fitted as part of the standard equipment, the outboard bowl turning rest might have been a clone of that on the Jubilee - and so equally as simple to adjust. However, unlike the Harrison, whose motor was almost hidden away within the stand and awkward and time consuming to slacken for changes of spindle speed (the motor was on a plate that had to be unbolted and lifted vertically with no aids provided), that on the Dominion was better arranged: no nuts needed to be slackened, instead the motor plate was hinged, fitted with a ball-ended locking lever, the undoing of which allowed the operator to grasp another lever, pivot the motor, nip up the locking lever, open the headstock cover, move the belt and then lower the motor plate. Hardly quick, but good enough.
Supplied with each new "Handy" was a complete electrical installation, left and right-hand faceplates, a bowl-turning attachment and a pair of wood-drive and standard Morse centres..

Unlike the Harrison Union Jubilee with its motor almost hidden within the stand and difficult to raise for changing spindle speeds, on the Dominion the whole assembly was better arranged and speeds changed with much greater ease